{"id":3020,"date":"2015-11-17T08:17:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T13:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2015-11-17T08:17:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T13:17:28","slug":"trust-how-can-organizations-measure-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=3020","title":{"rendered":"Trust: How Can Organizations Measure It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1005\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1005\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/TAATAW_LOGO_H_color-tagline-300x122.jpg\" alt=\"TAA_R2_EDIT-CS3\" width=\"300\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Imagine visiting a shoe store and failing to provide the salesperson with information on your shoe size, color or the style you are seeking yet expecting to leave with the shoes that meet your needs.<\/p>\n<p>Rarely a day passes without\u00a0a note or a call asking some variation of the following question:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><em>Do you have a questionnaire or a tool, to detect the level of trust in an organization?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And every time, I respond with &#8220;What are you trying to measure or detect?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Trust is not a &#8220;one size fits all&#8221; proposition. These are just a few of the variations, and each has it&#8217;s own tool and\/or assessment mechanism:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">Self-trust<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Internal trust including trust among team members, between teams, and trust between leaders and employees.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">External trust between the organization and its stakeholders including suppliers, vendors and customers.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Organizational trust or its trust &#8220;worthiness&#8221; both internally\u00a0and externally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">In most organizations trust is taken for granted perhaps because of the simple belief that &#8220;one size DOES fit all.&#8221; I hope you enjoy your shoes and that they meet your needs!<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #444444;\">Barbara Brooks Kimmel<\/strong><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0is the CEO &amp; Cofounder\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #4f81d8;\" href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/index.shtml\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Trust Across America-Trust Around the World<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0whose mission is to help organizations build trust. She facilitates the world&#8217;s<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/cgi-bin\/alliance.cgi\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">largest membership program<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for those interested in the subject. Barbara also servers as Editor of the award winning\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #4f81d8;\" href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/order.shtml\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">TRUST INC.<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span>book series and the Executive Editor of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #4f81d8;\" href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/magazine.shtml\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">TRUST! Magazine<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #444444;\">. In 2012 Barbara was named \u201cOne of 25 Women Changing the World\u201d by Good Business International.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Copyright 2015, Next Decade, Inc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<div class=\"wp-best-social-bookmark\"><ul class=\"socials\"><li class=\"oknotizie\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oknotizie.virgilio.it\/post.html.php?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=3020&title=Trust: How Can Organizations Measure It?\" title=\"Share this on oknotizie\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"twitter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Trust: How Can Organizations Measure It? &raquo; https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=3020\" title=\"Share this on twitter\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"delicious\"><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=3020&title=Trust: How Can Organizations Measure It?\" title=\"Share this on del.icio.us\"> <\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trust is not a &#8220;one size fits all&#8221; proposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[74,122,18,136,116,3,5,246,167,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3025,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}